What does Kuwait produce and export?

Kuwait ranks in the top ten producers of 1 commodity: crude oil (#10, 2.8% of world output in 2025).

Share of world production, 2025. Countries with no reported production are unshaded.

What does Kuwait produce?

Commodities where Kuwait is a top-ten producer
Commodity	World rank	Share of world	Production	Year	Source
Crude oil Energy	10	2.8%	2,820 thousand barrels daily	2025	Energy Institute

What does Kuwait export?

Kuwait is not a top-ten exporter of any commodity tracked here.

Top-ten importer of

Barite: #9, 2.5% of world imports, $23.3 million (2024)

Sources: FAOSTAT (crops and livestock), USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries (minerals), Energy Institute Statistical Review (energy) for production; CEPII BACI for trade. Ranks count only the commodities on this site.

Kuwait in the pattern reports

What the cross-commodity reports under Patterns say about Kuwait, computed from the same data as this page.

What Kuwait uses

Kuwait had about 4.8 million people and a food supply of 3,136 kilocalories per person a day in FAO's 2023 food balance sheets. Its eight largest supplies among the commodities tracked there:

Largest domestic supplies of tracked commodities in Kuwait, 2023
Commodity	Domestic supply	Share of world	kg per person	Self-sufficiency	Imported
Milk	724 thousand tonnes	0.1%	142 (#59 of 142)	11%	145%
Wheat	511 thousand tonnes	0.1%	105 (#45 of 143)	<0.1%	121%
Barley	424 thousand tonnes	0.3%	0.0 (#119 of 141)	1.2%	99%
Rice	339 thousand tonnes	<0.1%	70 (#32 of 141)	<0.1%	100%
Tomatoes	273 thousand tonnes	0.1%	54 (#12 of 142)	24%	89%
Potatoes	209 thousand tonnes	0.1%	39 (#61 of 143)	8.6%	91%
Corn	179 thousand tonnes	<0.1%	3.8 (#102 of 140)	15%	85%
Chicken	178 thousand tonnes	0.1%	37 (#25 of 143)	34%	71%

FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets. Per-person rank counts countries of at least 1 million people. See consumption and self-sufficiency.

Who supplies Kuwait

Single-supplier markets. Kuwait buys half or more of its imports from one country in 3 of 4 import markets of $250 million or more, among them gold from United Arab Emirates (70%, $1.1 billion); chicken from Brazil (64%, $479 million); rice from India (92%, $285 million). Import dependency.

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Data updated 22 October 2026.

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